Course Info: NS-0223
| Course | NS-0223 Medical Anthropology |
| Long Title | An Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
| Term | 2025F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Cole Science Center 333 on T,TH from 9:00-10:20 |
| Faculty | Felicity Aulino |
| Capacity | 24 |
| Available | 5 |
| Waitlist | 6 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course is an introduction to the rich and growing field of
medical anthropology: its theories, methods, and applications.
Course materials will include full length ethnographies as well
as a variety of shorter texts and visual work. Topics will
include the culture of medicine, the experience of illness,
immigration, embodiment, caregiving, addiction, violence, and
humanitarian intervention. We will focus on how ethnographic
research and social theory can enrich understanding of (and raise
issues about) medicine and public health that are often left out
of other disciplinary approaches. We will also consider attempts
to improve individual and population health, and possibilities
for wellbeing more generally. Throughout, we will emphasize two
elements: 1) the vantage point of the local worlds in which
people experience, narrate, and respond to illness and other
forms of suffering; and 2) the ways in which large-scale forces
contribute to such local experience. Keywords:care, health, medicine, public health, anthropology |